In 2022, Tom Roeder created a mobile venue – an enchanting place that can be everywhere and nowhere at once.
"Precisely in a time when life felt so unmoored, he recalled the story of a man whose vision had once been turned into a film: that of the young, capricious, and unconventional engineer Giorgio Rosa. In international waters of the Adriatic Sea, six miles off the coast of Rimini, Rosa built an artificial platform, named it Rose Island, and declared it a micronation. It existed for less than a year before it was dismantled. But it did exist – and with it, a marvelous story."
"Since then, his own Rose Island keeps emerging in the sea of everyday life – creating a place that lifts the spirit and inspires."
"Seitdem taucht seine Roseninsel immer wieder im Meer des Alltäglichen auf und schafft darin einen beflügelnden Ort."
(Excerpt from SZ Text: Nadja Laske)
